From the course: Data Ethics: Making Data-Driven Decisions
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How to approach ethics
From the course: Data Ethics: Making Data-Driven Decisions
How to approach ethics
- Anytime you bring a group of people together, you're going to have different sets of beliefs. This will hold true whether you're in a small group or working in a large organization. When you're part of an organization, everyone agrees to an unwritten set of rules on how to operate well together. If you're in a meeting and you don't agree with someone, then you don't roll your coffee or threaten your coworkers. You understand that you'll be fired from the organization if you break these rules. These rules that everyone agrees on are called morality. It's the agreed upon principles of good and bad behavior. Everyone brings their own set of moral values, but as you can imagine, not everyone agrees on what's good or bad behavior. So one of the first challenges is to try and come up with some agreed upon moral way to operate. That's because how an organization handles moral conflict is a key part of its identity. And people like…